'Colorful' TX County Judge Won't Be Seeking Reelection - Many Grateful Breaths Exhaled

wow. she's a KOOK


Um...'Colorful' TX County Judge Won't Be Seeking Reelection - Many Grateful Breaths Exhaled

I had never heard of this woman until my buddy Duke in Houston told me she was retiring (aka not running for reelection), and that they were all pretty thrilled with the news.


Houstonians are celebrating today: the idiot Harris County judge, Lina Hidalgo, has announced she's not running for a 3rd term. She is bat s**t crazy...

You know, I had to go see what that was about.

An immigrant from Columbia [Beege: fixed it], Judge Hidalgo was elected a Harris County judge - the third most populated county in the entire country, and includes most of the city of Houston - when she was only 27 years old. She's been reelected once and was getting ready for a run at a third term when she suddenly changed her mind and announced she was dropping out.

...Ms. Hidalgo rocketed to national attention in 2018 when, as a 27-year-old progressive Democrat and first-time candidate, she defeated a two-term Republican incumbent and took over as the top official in the nation’s third most populous county.

Her victory, her youth and her biography as an immigrant from Colombia gained her immediate prominence among Democrats and talk of an eventual statewide run in Texas, perhaps for governor or the Senate. Her profile appeared to be exactly what the Democratic Party was seeking, a young progressive Latina capable of winning over the state’s increasingly Hispanic voters.

Even as friendly as they are to progressives, the New York Times had some difficulty smoothing over Hidalgo's reputation for being a pain-in-the-tuchus, noting that there was going to be plenty of Democratic opposition in the primary.




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